Saw this in theaters. Awesome flick. The yelling of "RUNNNNNNNNN!" still sends chills down my spine.

We were all in on it. We knew the whole time. Steven Spielberg told us "in 21 years, we're gonna trick Shanelle with this movie." And we were all like "who's Shanelle?" Then he winked and said "you'll see" before boarding a helicopter and flying off.

she _HAS TO_ see 'edge of tomorrow'. i love that movie SOOOO much.

I'm going deep on this trivia. There are 3 Swedes in this movie: Max von Sydow as Lamar, Peter Stormare as the doctor and Caroline Lagerfelt as his assistant Greta. She sings a song as she enters: "Små Grodorna". This is typically sung in Sweden at Midsummer while jumping like frogs around in a circle. Why? Because "Små Grodorna" means "small frogs" and there are lots of dancing in circles at midsummer. What most Swedes don't know is that this song was originally a French marching song used by one of Napoleon's regiments. The Brits then wrote a comedy version with changed lyrics mocking the French as "little frogs" and somehow this made its way to Sweden and is still sung every year in our summer celebrations.

It's crazy how many of PKD's work was adapted for film. Kind of sad that he didn't get to see any of them. Also, you're usually on top of things with films and plot but this one got away from you. It totally tricked you, and that's so fun!

Love to see your reaction to another PKD story" A Scanner Darkly". A great cast and was roboscoped to look animated.

Doesn't seem like it'd be the type but it's still one of my favourite Colin Farrell performances. Dude's first real major role in Hollywood, playing against the biggest movie star on the planet, and he just nails it.

Add another vote for A Scanner Darkly. Philip K. Dick is widely regarded as the best science fiction author on any planet.

I'd never made that connection but, having heard it, I like the idea and the implications of her seeing the future of their second child. In the moment, obviously, they both think she's talking about their late son but their reasons (being that, in that moment, they both see no future in which they're back together) make that possibility even more beautiful.

What's great about the 2 shot at 26:40 is they're looking in separate directions, symbolizing his Anderton's ability to choose, echoing what Agatha just told him. Anderson looking slightly down and into the shadows/dark (the wrong choice), and Agatha looking up and into the light (the right choice). Have always loved this incredible moment.

Fun fact: the hotel clerk is William Mapother, real life cousin to Tom Cruise. Personally my #1 favorite Philip K Dick movie adaptation.

Iphotographer here) That blown out look is a technique called high key. It's an art to accomplish that without completely blowing out your highlights. Very effective in certain situations. Great reaction!

One of my all-time favorites! Every aspect is top-notch. I love the depiction of the future. Spielberg's weekend think tank of futurists was brilliant. It makes the future more believable than most movies. It'll be interesting to see how it fares when we reach 2054, as opposed to Back to the Future's 2015. (I'll probably be dead, tho!)

The best sci-fi film of the past decade is Ex Machina. Watch it if you haven't.

Thank you so much for including the line "I am going to kill this man." It's one of my favorite line deliveries EVER and def my fave in this film. The writing and performance there come together so perfectly it encapsulates and entire "lifetime" of emotions and decisions in a single sentence :)

There's a popular fan theory that everything that happens after John is arrested is actually a coma dream. They point to how easily John's wife gains access to the prison to get him out, how easily he's able to infiltrate Burgess' party, and the happy ending for him and his wife and the precogs as being John's own wish-fulfillment in his mind.

Phillip K. Dick's works often are explorations of the nature of reality and personal identity partly because of his own history of drug abuse and mental illness. It is believed that he suffered from schizophrenia and he has a documented history of using amphetamines. Because he himself couldn't always be sure of what was real and who he really was, his works often reflected those same themes of questioning what is real and how would you know if it wasn't.

If you listen to what the warden says the ending may just be John's dream.

I'll watch this a little later, but a big part of me just wants to see Shanelle geek out over Minority Report's trivia alone. 😄

"Only Spielberg gives me this full body chills, I don't know why!" That's because of John WIlliams' music!

Such an excellent Sci Fi film... Here's a few more great, SMART, Sci Fi / Fantasy ones: "DARK CITY," "GATTICA," "BRAZIL," "CHILDREN OF MEN," "GRAVITY"... each of these films will resonate with you long after you're done watching. Cheers!

This is Tim’s most underrated movie in my humble. I just love it. It’s different but there’s quality performances all over & just so many heart in mouth moments

Two other PKD adaptations I would recommend - A Scanner Darkly (wild cast, interesting visual style) and Paycheck (ridiculous Hollywood John Woo melodramatic action with Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman)

I just love Samantha Morton (Agatha)... she's such an exciting performer. She played an amazing villain in The Walking Dead and the lead in The Serpent Queen, which I'm still watching.

your trivia segments at the end of the reaction are the best! I usually know I like a movie if I research trivia and breakdowns of the movie right after watching it. You always find more trivia than I would! 🤠

Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dashiell Hammett. All mystery writers. In a mystery, who knows the end beforehand? The author.

I always associated the shot of Agatha and John's faces with the god Janus and his two faces. When I tried to find info to see if I was right to interpret it that way, I learned that the cinematographer for this and other Speilberg movies is named Janusz Kaninski. It doesn't support my take, but I still dig it.

"A Scanner Darkly" is the quintessential Philip K Dick story, directed by Richard Linklater. It's a must watch. All-star cast and very underrated.

Tom Cruise’s story arc on struggling with loss was brilliant. The pre-cogs were named after mystery writers. Dashiell Hammett, creator of Sherlock Holmes stories Arthur C Doyle and the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie. I knew Agatha was gonna grab Tom Cruise from the pool but Spielberg still managed to scare me!! Love how they used Schubert’s music when Tom was browsing the images early in the movie.

Fun fact The setting was Washington DC, but they moved it across the river because the city officials pointed out they couldn't do driving up a high rise because it's illegal to build anything taller than the Washington monument

Really cool movie with a really cool concept. Definitely makes you think. Also great performance by Tom Cruise.

Little fun fact. The precogs were named after famous crime authors. Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett.

The "our Glow knobs go to 11" era...

Some shot details I noted that i haven’t seen mentioned elsewhere: Early in the film, the cheating wife uses the scissors and cuts through Abraham Lincoln’s eye on the back of the paper. It both shows us the scissors that would have been used and foreshadows the eye surgery later in the film (doesn’t hurt that it’s Lincoln who is also a murder victim who was shot in the back of the head). When Max Von Sydow’s character approaches Tom Cruise’s Anderton at the end with the gun, there is a high overhead shot with Sydow’s long shadow reaching out to Cruise. His shadowy evil is literally creeping toward John A.

Good call on John Williams' score! Fun video! [edit] Wow, your recap is fantastic! You really have a great knack for this, Shanelle! ☮

Holy moocow, Shanelle! You nailed it!! 👏 You definitely have an ear for John Williams 🎶😛

Love all the work you’re doing! Keep it up!

Absolutely love this movie! Thank you so much for reviewing this amazing film!❤

Very insightful commentary. I loved this movie, not just for the mystery thriller narrative, but the little details of the future society, particularly how many in the general public revered the Pre Cogs as though they were deities. I also liked how the Colin Farrell character was not just an antagonist to Cruise, but was a very smart FBI agent. Spielberg avoided the trap of some contemporary movies that feel empty because the supporting characters are inconsequential. Here, the supporting cast was great. And Samantha Morton was excellent, and other worldly, as Agatha.

What's really gonna twist your noodle is whether the ending actually happened. PKD loves playing with reality. In Total Recall, was it just a the vacation he paid for? In this movie, did he really make it out of prison? Remember when you're in that prison you dream about your desires to keep you complacent.

I might misremember this but the way the computer interface on screens worked with hand gestures was ahead of its time and was later used by actual computer companies for touchscreens. So the reason we for example spread two fingers to zoom into a picture on a smartphone or tablet is that it was copied from this film. Remember, the film was made before smartphones and tablets existed...

The Recruit. Underrated Colin Farrell/Al Pacino flick with this type of feel. Great movie.

SHANELLE: “Why is there two choices?” AGATHA: (Much later) “You can choose!”

Any performance by von Sydow is worth checking out. He is best remembered for playing chess with the character Death (7th Seal). His other films include The Virgin Spring, Flash Gordon, Through A Glass Darkly, The Swedish Mistress, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Exorcist, Flight of the Eagle, Dreamscape, Dune, Pelle the Conqueror, and +100 more. Can we max out on Max?? RIP.

Regarding Gideon, the "prison guard" - Tim Blake Nelson is not only a great actor with an iconic face, but also a heavily busy director and a playwright. Judging from his usually rather goofy characters, you wouldn't tell that among other things he wrote and directed one of the most disturbing movies about the holocaust, "The Grey Zone" from 2001, telling the story of the 1944 rebellion of the 12th Sonderkommando at Auschwitz-Birkenau, featuring an amazingly stacked cast with Harvey Keitel, David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, Mira Sorvino and Natasha Lyonne to name only a few.

This is my favourite short story by Philip K Dick. My favourite theme in the story is that the only members of Precrime generate minority reports, because only they have access to knowledge about the future, which in turn generates various futures in which you act on the information in each subsequent prediction. Which suggests that more people would choose not to commit the crime, were they given access to the information.

Yes, 80s Spielberg is hugely influential, but I think that his later 90s and 00s output, basically the run from Schindler's List to Munich, is another great era. He revolutionalized filmography again and was very in touch with the times: the pre-9/11 Western hybris as well as the confusion and sobering after are represented very clearly.

You said it, " only Spielberg can give me full body chills!" Same for me. I'm not a crier, but when i watch like Schindler's List or The Color Purple or A.I: Artificial Intelligence or Saving Private Ryan, i get Goosebumps in situations where most people would be crying.

Oh god dammit! I've been refreshing my feed all day waiting for this to drop, gave up thinking you'd be posting it on Saturday and then, out of the blue, I see the notification for this. Pretty late in the day too. It's past 10 P.M. here so...5 P.M. where you are? Were you having issues uploading it? Oh well, I suppose it doesn't matter. I'm a simple guy, Shanelle uploads, I watch. 😊

It would be so cool to see you watch Gattaca. Although its a completely different story, there are some similar themes and filming techniques. Its a incredible story about perceived fate versus one's actual potential, it has an amazing cinematic eye, and the soundtrack is one of my all time favorites, not to mention it has Ethan Hawke, Jude Law, and Uma Therman. And it will definitely give you a ton of chills.

Anything from the early 2000's is influenced by The Matrix. The color tone and blown out whites are the next evolution of The Matrix's green tone. Also, I can't explain how amazing it was to see the early scene where Tom is using hand gestures to manipulate video. The pinch-to-zoom controls we use on phones today basically came from that scene. When you see people in The Expanse use a hand gesture to toss data from one screen to another or manipulate a map of the solar system - all that comes from that scene.

The jetpack scene was giving me Rocketeer vibes.

Cruise does fantastic scifi. Another favorite of mine is Oblivion. And another great PKD adaptation is Paycheck with Affleck.

I saw this in NYC back in 2002 and it blew my mind.

Shanelle: you asked for Christmas-themed films for your reactions. A forgotten Christmas-set classic I HIGHLY recommend: "Bell, Book and Candle" (1958) Christmastime, witches, beatniks, and publishing in New York City. Stars James Stewart and Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Elsa Lanchester. This is my favorite Christmas movie, just barely above "A Christmas Carol" (1951), starring Alastair Sim.

Neil McDonough (the unreasonably blonde Fletcher in this) was a wonderful addition to season 3 of Justified, where he channeled dark charm beautifully.

21:52 - As Ashleigh always says: "You tried your best, you did good!" 😁

The irony is that it's self-fulfilling prophecy: would Anderton have gone looking for a guy named Leo Crowe if the prediction had never been made?

13:54 I saw a guy flying a jetpack once. It's really really loud and they can only fly for like 30 seconds. He took off from a 2 story rooftop, flew in a little circle, then landed maybe 20 feet from me.

After the little Philip K Dick binge, let's see if we can figure out the REAL mystery? - Is Deckard a replicant? - Did Quaid actually go to Mars and terraform the world, or was that him living out the last of his Recall hallucination as he died just like they told him? Because that adventure seemed pretty much exactly what he asked for...before the film fades to WHITE (not black as is traditional) at the end. - Did John's wife actually break him out of the dream-jail, or was the rest of the film after that his hallucinations locked in the jail? Because that sure was one perfect wrap-up with all the mysteries solved and John back together with his wife in their beautiful country home and the precogs all safe and sound and living a cozycore life with no lasting physical disabilities or mental trauma from living prone in milk for decades.

In that scene, Agatha was giving John an account of Sean’s Minority Report, his possible alternate future had he not been taken.

1:11 - Oh, I think I can guarantee you'll feel that. One good point I'll give this movie is the way the story unfolds. We always know as much as the main protagonist, not made privy to any clue before him, discovering what he does WHEN he does.

Great movie, and a terrifying premise that is currently happening on a less sci-fi scale. If you keep a certain amount of cash on hand or in the bank. If you spend "too much" money (according to the government). If you buy "too many" firearms...even from a licensed firearms dealer. And many more examples.. You are likely to get a visit from some three letter government agency.

Samantha Morton, who plays Agatha, is a powerful actress. She was Oscar nominated in the film In America in 2002 and was wonderful as Mary, Queen of Scots in Elizabeth: The Golden Age.

So happy to see this. As we watched the Blade Runners, I thought of this. It's an excellent follow up. Thanks! Here we go! :)

The whole last 20 minutes are pretty much a reversal of Dick's story so there's a happy ending. The original short story was a far more tragic end, where Anderton knows his crime was faked, but he still kills the criminal to ensure Pre-Crime continues (in short, the individual dies while the system rules which better fit Dick's classic government paranoia)

5:31 "Was that necessary, the ceiling thing?" They got the drop on the bad guy.

Hi there Shanelle, cool reaction as always, you have a good night sweetie 🥰❤️

If you're on the Philip K Dick train, you might want to give A Scanner Darkly a shot. Pretty cool movie with Keanu Reeves and Robert Downey Jr.

18:09 - Oh don't give me that face! Like you wouldn't! 😂

If you think about it, the silvery look is actually a processing effect done to the film during development. In modern digital workflows any effect is post processing and now it is just part of the vernacular. Has anyone born after the 80s ever looked at their Photoshop toolbar and wondered why their burn and dodge tools have those icons? Why is it even called burning and dodging? (look it up) Pre-digital imaging is fascinating and makes me appreciate older movies even more. The things guys like Spielberg and Lucas had to do the get their vision in front of people's eyes!

I'd be interested to see you react to The Seventh Seal (1957), directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Max von Sidow. It's the film that really cemented Igmar Bergman's status as one of the great directors.It's a great, philosophical movie about a knight playing chess with Death while he struggles with his religious faith and the trauma of returning home after the crusades.

"A Scanner Darkly"

Colin Farrell is so underrated.

This movie is very sci-fi, but one of the biggest predictions it made was of personalized advertisement. It is not as invasive today as "how is your new sports bra", but we're on the road there...

I saw this in theaters and have always been a big fan. Great flick.

Thanks, Shanelle! 🔮 Kudos to Steven Spielberg.

40:12 it was about a minority report, but not John’s. It was Ann Lively’s minority report.

14:35 - Well they're certainly not sonic screwdrivers or probes! 😂

Don't worry, Shanelle, your powers of perception are intact. The earliest I've seen any reactor figure out who the real villain is is when Danny Witwer is laying out his theory about the Anne Lively murder to Lamarr. Why would Danny be so invested in getting to the bottom of that murder, which was unrelated to the hunt for John Anderton?

30:15 - Oh, I can't wait for your reaction when you get it! It's like watching your head exploding in slo-mo! 🤣

I always forget that the two best sci-fi movies of the 2000s came out on the same weekend.

This is a great neo noir Sci Fi Action Thriller Film! Originally,this was going to be a sequel to TOTAL RECALL, but Steven Spielberg took the reins and made it into a standalone movie instead.

When John Anderson's wife found out that Lamar killed Ann Lively in front of Lamar himself. He could not kill her as he would get detected by the precogs.

I enjoyed the short lived TV series spinoff of Minority Report as well. Another TV show about future, tech and morality is "Almost Human" only one season, but very enjoyable.

I love this movie. The only part that makes me wince is how someone who's been floating in a tank her entire life seems to have no muscular atrophy. Maybe I missed an explanatory scene somewhere.

Oh, the rotten sandwich & milk never made sense to me until you asked why there were two choices. Everything's f*cking symbolism. 😂

At the time this movie came out, I happened to be taking Science Fiction as an English Literature elective in college. ... Early 2000s sci-fi is something special.

I guess you missed the swedish actor Max von Sydow. He died in 2020, 90 years old. Actor in 278 movies... Oh, and the other really famous swedish actor; Peter Stormare. (The creepy "doctor").

Want more P.K.Dick please watch A Scanner Darkly. Keanu, RDJr, Woody, Wonna, etc

"I feel bad for him - she's the cheater." IKR?

Tom Cruise took "keep an eye out " too literally

Saw this at the movies with a friend and his girlfriend. He chose the movie. They're no longer together.

Scanner Darkly - amazing - all star cast and closest adaptation to PKD novel. Paycheck very good.

That's PKD for you! When you read this work, you wonder: "what the hell is this?" Like a random splat of words and sentences, that befuddle your brain, like he gets in your mind and plays jazz with your neurons, and all humming with this frenetic energy, like a man who had ideas to big to contain in his mind, and coming all too quickly even for him, and he must almost transcribe for the sake of humanity... But by the end, to your own surprise, you discover that by doing so, he's planted the strongest, must profound ideas, with the greatest charity in your thinking, that you realise could not have been achieved by ordinary means. He's the Mozart of sci-fi! Shame nobody has made a movie of Ubik yet, or maybe somebody wants to, they just haven't figured out how.

One of the coolest concepts in this movie wasn't precognition, precrime, replacement eyes, the way traffic works, or any of that other stuff. No, the coolest concept was the "sick stick", a stun baton that makes the target projectile vomit when struck.

13:30 - Oh yeah, that reminds me: Demolition Man - S. Stallone, S. Bullock, W. Snipes. Same level of satire as RoboCop, bit more comedic, sci-fi, action, set in the future, bit more modern. The whole kit & kaboodle! 😊

Agatha Christie Arthur Conan Doyle Dashiell Hammett This is such a great flick. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen it.

such a lovely emotion driven reaction, this film is full of surprises

31:00 - (Shaking fist at the sky) Damn you filmmakers! 😂